The Gogoro early adopters will be guinea pigs for the BMS ... only Tesla imo has managed to make a BMS that really works on high voltage series-parallel battery packs.

Gogoro looks cute, but those skinny, small tires, won't have the emergency and high-speed handling of the wide/big tires found on the Taiwan-made Kymco Super 9, a 85 kph gas scooter that is considered the best-ever 50cc made.

Gogoro company is said to be aiming for the 18-26 year olds -- too young to know much about electric motos, or BMS problems.

$4100 and only a 2 year warranty, too. The gas scooters in Taiwan sell for $500 according to articles.

I've had a chance to check out and test ride the N1 scooters here in Beijing. Great marketing, but the quality isn't a lot better than other electric scooters in the China market. They've spent a bit of time on redesigning it so it looks unique thought, which helps push the sales i'm sure.

They have 2x packs specs at 20ah and 26ah, but there's no way the bike gets 100km per charge at regular cruising. Again, it's part of the marketing which is counterproductive to the whole industry. One of the designers I talked with said it might do 100km moving at 10km/h with a girl riding it, but realistically, it's not going to be able to hit those numbers. Science still takes over.

Overall, it's a decent powertrain with a nicely designed pack, and it's 1 step forward in the right direction in popularizing higher quality e-scooters.